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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






2. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






3. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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4. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






5. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






6. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






7. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






8. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






9. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






10. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






11. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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12. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






13. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






14. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






15. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






16. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






17. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






18. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






19. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






20. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






21. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






22. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






23. Whole body learning






24. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






25. English as a second language






26. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






27. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






28. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






29. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






30. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






31. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






32. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






33. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






34. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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35. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






36. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






37. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






39. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






40. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






42. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






43. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






44. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






45. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






46. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






47. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






48. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






50. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.







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